Blog: precision irrigation and water in agriculture
Background articles on sensors, crop models, water policy and drought.
- Spain's recurring water stress
Drought, over-abstraction and desertification risk in Spain in 2016, and the role of irrigation efficiency. - FIGARO's final conference announced
The programme of FIGARO's closing stakeholder conference in Brussels, September 2016. - Harvard Business Review on feeding a growing world
A 2016 HBR op-ed argued for precision farming, including irrigation, to meet rising food demand without clearing more land. - UK grants for precision irrigation equipment
The 2016 UK Countryside Productivity Scheme grants for more efficient on-farm irrigation, and their conditions. - Agriculture and Europe's water
How much of Europe's water goes to irrigation, and why its impact is larger than the abstraction figures suggest. - Two web apps: field data retrieval and WiseUp
FIGARO's field data retrieval web service at the Picassent pilot site and CER's WiseUp irrigation strategy tool. - What changed with platform version 1
A short look at what FIGARO's first full platform version brought in January 2015. - Keeping crop models in step with the field
Why crop models drift from reality and how FIGARO fed them with real-time sensor data. - Sensors and satellite images in precision irrigation
The sensors behind the FIGARO platform: weather stations, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, water meters and two new sensors. - FIGARO at the EIP Water Conference 2014
FIGARO's participation in the European Innovation Partnership on Water conference in Barcelona, November 2014. - Smart irrigation and California's drought
What a 2014 study on California's drought said about on-farm water efficiency and the cost barrier for small farms.